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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. -- Benito Mussolini
Suffering saints are living seed. -- Charles Spurgeon
May God protect me from gloomy saints. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Great writers are the saints for the godless. -- Anita Brookner
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints. -- Charles Simeon
Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell. -- Martin Luther
The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. -- Charles Spurgeon
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. -- Abigail Van Buren
Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another. -- William Gurnall
The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. -- Matthew Henry
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.- -- Samuel Rutherford
Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has. -- Charles Spurgeon
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. -- Frederick Buechner
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. -- C. S. Lewis
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. -- Billy Joel
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. -- Walter Scott
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. -- Athanasius
We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly. -- Saint Ignatius
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. -- Soren Kierkegaard
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. -- Thomas Aquinas
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. -- Athanasius
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. -- Pope Benedict XVI
None of us are saints. -- Albert Fish
Great saints are never wimps. -- Peter Kreeft
God, deliver me from sullen saints. -- Teresa of Avila
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. -- Pamela Hansford Johnson
May God protect me from gloomy saints. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. -- Thomas Merton
Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Most saints live to regret their career choice. -- Bob Stokes
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir. -- Kabir
To saints their very slumber is a prayer. -- St. Jerome
Love makes saints or sinners out of men. -- Nora Roberts
Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints. -- Rudyard Kipling
When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils. -- Peter Kreeft
Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known. -- Rajneesh
From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord. -- Teresa Giudice
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints. -- Evelyn Underhill
When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience. -- Paul McCartney
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. -- Albert Camus
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There are no super saints, only those that don't quit. -- Misty Edwards
I have played a few lay saints in my time. -- Pauline Collins
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God made saints out of far worse people than you. -- Mark Hart
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future. -- Anton Chekhov
To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints. -- Josemaria Escriva
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace. -- Charles Spurgeon
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. -- Teresa of Avila
Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners. -- Peter Kreeft
The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important. -- Oswald Chambers
There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists. -- Virginia Woolf
I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. -- Elizabeth Barton
Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints. -- Josemaria Escriva
Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints. -- Pope Clement I
The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914. -- Charles Taze Russell
The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice. -- Dada Vaswani
The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice. -- Dada Vaswani
You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ. -- Frank E. Gaebelein
Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints. -- Louisa May Alcott
The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars. -- Rumi
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. -- Billy Joel
Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting. -- Vincent de Paul
I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints. -- Edith Wharton
Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum! -- Pope John Paul II
Jealousy, turning saints into the seaSwimming through sick lullabiesChoking on your alibis -- The Killers
Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal. -- Vance Havner
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. -- Abigail Van Buren
If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. -- Blaise Pascal
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We are all called to be great saints, don't miss the opportunity. -- Mother Angelica
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These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. -- Elizabeth Kostova
Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. -- Anne Hutchinson
Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good. -- Jimmy Wales
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery. -- Spencer W. Kimball
People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education. -- Robertson Davies
All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel. -- Mark Twain
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. -- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal. -- Tess Gerritsen
The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors. -- Simone Weil
[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf. -- Moliere
Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself? -- Peter Kreeft
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. -- Nathanael Howe
...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors... -- Rachel Vincent
It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers. -- Anthony Anderson
The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners. -- Hugh Price Hughes
It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead. -- Mark Hart
To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone. -- Pope Francis
Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes. -- Dave Snowden
That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world. -- Charles Colson
The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. -- Vance Havner
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. -- Gertrude Stein
Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these. -- Tanith Lee
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. -- Victor Hugo
Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. -- Joseph Joubert
Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not. -- Dan Millman
Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. -- Nichiren
As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. -- Thomas Aquinas
The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't. -- George Jones
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. -- William Shakespeare
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners. -- Timothy Keller
What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death. -- Mark Hart
The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you. -- Tito Colliander
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man -- Charlton Heston
You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints. -- Edward James Olmos

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